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Kelley is credited [4] with being the first to commit the term "woke" to print, in the title of a 1962 op-ed for The New York Timeson the use of African-American slang by beatniks: "If You're Woke, You Dig It". [5] [10] For Kathryn Schulz, writing in The New Yorker in 2018, Kelley is "the lost giant of American literature". [3]
Woke has also been used as shorthand for some ideas of the American Left involving identity politics and social justice, such as white privilege and reparations for slavery in the United States. [1] [2] [3] The phrase stay woke was uttered in recordings from the mid-20th century by Lead Belly and, post-millennium, by Erykah Badu.
The word "woke" is tossed around a lot in political and social debates all around the country. It's ramping up as Election Day draws near. The term carries different meanings and strong emotional ...
In the wake of the killing of unarmed Black youths such as Trayvon Martin, Twitter users exhorted Americans to “stay woke,” meaning vigilant, about racism and police brutality.
African American slang is formed by words and phrases that are regarded as informal. It involves combining, shifting, shortening, blending, borrowing, and creating new words. African American slang possess all of the same lexical qualities and linguistic mechanisms as any other language. AAVE slang is more common in speech than it is in writing ...
Maskot/Getty Images. 6. Delulu. Short for ‘delusional,’ this word is all about living in a world of pure imagination (and only slightly detached from reality).
Snowflake is a derogatory slang term for a person, implying that they have an inflated sense of uniqueness, an unwarranted sense of entitlement, or are overly emotional, easily offended, and unable to deal with opposing opinions.
John Hamilton McWhorter V (/ m ə k ˈ hw ɔːr t ər /; [1] born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist. [2] [3] He is an associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University, [4] where he also teaches American studies and music history. [5]